The Penn's Grove record., 1887-02-26
NEWS OFTHE WEEK

burglars. Iney met III Tue c HOOI
hallway Mrs. Kate Booth, a nurse in
attendance on Mrs. Talcott, gagged and
bound her, and carried off $500 worth
of jewelry.
The danger from the food and ice
gorge at Lyons, Michigan, is considered
past, though the water is still a foot
deep in the main street.
"A violent wind storm, with a maxi
mum velocity of 80 miles an hour,
swept over eastern Colorado on the
morning OF the 18th before daylight.
In Denver, windows were smashed,
| chimneys and telegraph poles were ley
elled and houses unroofed. On the
Denver and RIO Grande Railway, near
Colorado Springs, a train of seven cars
was blown from the track, and the mail
car and its contents were burned. No
person was injured. A train was also
blown from the track near Morrison,
and several persons were injured, n
having a leg broken. Near Como, an
express train was blown owe a bridge
and wrecked, and nearly all the passen-
gers and trainmen were severely injured.
A freight train of twenty cars was
blown from a side track and the cars
were badly damaged near Colorado
| Springs. All trains arriving at Denver
were delayed from five to ten hours by
the storm. Great damage was done On
the 18th by wind storms at WATERFOWL,
| New York, and New Bedford, Massa-
| chusetts. A telegram from Chicago
reports a terrific wind storm, accom-
panied by driving sleet and snow
throughout the Northwest. Tele-
| graphic communication west of Omaha
and st. Paul was cut off, and trains on
nearly all the Railroads were blocked
or delayed
The flood in South Chicago,
caused by the swelling of the river,
was augmented on the 18th by rain.
Many of the streets and sidewalks are
covered with water, and cellars are
filled. A violent thunder storm ragged
on the evening Of the nth, and a
dwelling in Hyde Park was badly dam
aged by lightning, A heavy rain for
twenty-four hours has caused a re-
newal of the flood at Lyons, Michigan.
A very heavy rain storm, with extra
ordinary electrical disturbance, pre-
vailed at Bloomington, Illinois, on
the evening of the 18th, and heavy
hail fell in the ncighborlng country.
The storm was felt throughout Central
Illinois. where it has rained almost in
cessantly for a week. A shower of
small particles of mud fell IN the
| country around Lincoln, Nebraska, on
the afternoon of the 18th. 1t is sup
posed that dust raised by a strong
wind storm two hundred miles west of
Lincoln was precipitated with the rain
fall. Everything on which the shower
fell presented a splashed appearance.
"A telegram from Lancaster,
Penna., says it is estimated that $780,
600 will be required to repair the dam
age done by ice to the Susquehanna
and Tidewater Canal. A severe earth
quake was felt at FredericktOwn, Mis-
souri,, on the evening Of the 18th. The
| shock was sufficient to displace plaster
ing on the walls and overturn furnl-
ure.
The store and dwelling of Albert
r. Foster, at Otsego, New York, were
wrecked by an explosion of dynamite
cartridges which had been placed
under the building. Another store,
twenty feet distant, was badly dam
aged by flying tinlbers. Three men
were sleeping in Fosters building,
but they escaped injury beyond a ter
rible shaking up.
"A heavy thunder storm passed
over New York city and Its neighbor-
hood on the evening of the 18th. at
6 O'Clock tightening set fire to one Of
| a. Io.nx0 N,sIlinrg On 4hn A pnarinan
| Cotton Docks at Tompkinsville, Staten
Island, ard at half-past IL O'Clock
buildings Nos. 4. 5 and IL had been
destroyed, with about 10000 bales of
cotton. The loss is estimated at $780,
000, which is covered by insurance.
During a wind storm at Rochester
New York, on the 18th, two telegraph
poles on the iron bridge across the
| Genessee river were blown down and
carried away two spans of the bridge.
Annie Graham, aged 10 years, was
swept into the torrent and drowned
Three other persons are missing and
supposed to he lost.
The engine of a railroad train
broke through bridge neal Desplaines,
Illinois. on the afternoon of the 18th.
| w lilidtA b&tlb1s LhO hiILiui9 "oo "a
tally injured; the engineer escaped with
a sever scalp wound. A freight train
on the Pennsylvania Railroad broke
near Golfers Station, on the morning
of the 18th, and the rear portion was
run into by another freight train,
wrecking several cars and throwing
them on the west track. A west-bound
freight ran Into the wreck, the result
being that two engines and twenty-one
cars of the three trains were badly
wrecked. No one was injured. A south
bound freight tram on the Reading and
Columbia Railroad was wrecked by a
slide of rock In a deep cut, near Rein
holds Station, on the morning of the
10Th. The engine and five loaded cars
were thrown from the track and badly
broken up. No one Mas injured. A
freight train on the Wisconsin Central
Railroad struck a broken rail near
Neenah, on the 10th, and eighteen cars
were thrown off the track.
"A young woman named Hattie
Orme, who insisted upon steering a
toboggan, on a slide IN Chicago on the
18th, sent it over the side of the chute
to the ground, thirty feet below. In
ldliluR ntl q was ltIilLIy SdsuCtl ny
an electric light wire, and she broke
her right arm in three places, besides
tearing the flesh from heI left.
The house of John Baughman,
aged 81 years, in Dalton, Ohio, was
burned early on the morning of the
18th. Mr.. Baughman was taken from
the burning building dead. His wife,
aged IS years, was still living ,kbut not
expected to ecover.
John Lewis. II years of age, is
reported suffering from hydrophobia,
near Erie, Pennsylvania. He was
bitten by a dog five years ago, but he
and his friends have been fearful of
the consequences eve since.
Mayor Cleveland, of Jersey City,
was on the 10Th served with a sum-
mons in a libel suit for SIS, 900 dam
ages brought by William A. and
Robert Pinkerton, of Pinkerton's De-
tective Agency. The libel is based on